8 Apr 2010

Sorry for the delay in posting again. I spent the Easter weekend visiting friends in Sheffield, and had a great time catching up with them. But now that I’m back, I thought it would be useful to set out the reasons why I’m blogging, and what I hope to do with the blog over the next few months. The main reasons I’m blogging are:

To market myself. This blog will be a body of work on the topics that I’m passionate about.

To make me a better communicator!

To expand on my answers to StackOverflow questions. Quite often, when I get interested in a SO question, there is additional material that doesn’t make it into the answer. I plan on using that material in posts on this blog.

To note technical points that are of interest to myself and others. For instance, you can expect to see a number of posts on developing and configuring SharePoint 2010 over the next few months.

To document my own personal projects.

The last point is the most important. For a while now, I had a number of personal projects that I wanted to start work on, but never seemed to have the time for. By documenting the projects using this blog, I will publicly committing myself to completing these projects, and will also break up the project work into post sized pieces.

Given the above, I plan to post at least twice weekly to the blog. The blog posts will in general be one of the following types:

A roundup of useful links (every Friday)

Articles summarizing work done on personal projects (typically on a Monday or Tuesday, to document work done over the weekend)